Alastair Neil writes: > I am trying to set up a fileserver which will serve files for around 9000 > users. Each user will get two ZFS file systems one for home directory and > another for web space. This means around 18000 ZFS filesystems. > > The production machine is a dual Xeon wtih 8 Gbytes of RAM. My development > system is a uniprocessor P4 with 2 Gbytes of ram.
Not a good system for testing ZFS deployments, you really should use a 64 bit system with at least 4GB of RAM. > I have managed to get > around 3400 fielsystems created on my test system and then it locks up > generating resource errors from fork. > > Does anyone have any experience with this number of ZFS filesystems? if so > will the production system as specced be able to handle this number of ZFS > filesytems? > People have, try the zfs-discuss list after checking its archives. Ian
